814 How AR, VR, Games, and Simulations Are Ushering In a New Era of Learning

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Friday, October 26

Emerging Tech

St. Croix B

A new wave of game-playing professionals are entering the workforce.
Professional football players already rehearse their moves with video games. Pilots
earn flight miles in flight simulators. Soldiers are recruited and trained with
the America’s Army game. How will corporations
develop the next generation of learners who have spent more time with video games
than in school? How will they bring immersion, engagement, and presence to new levels?

In this session, you’ll explore the real ways leading companies
prepare their employees with on-the-job training simulations, such as business leadership,
cyber defense, and executive selling. You’ll discover how these experiences challenge
players to level up through increasingly complex real-world tasks and offer feedback
and recognition along the way. You’ll also find out how virtual and augmented reality
are ushering in a new era of experiential and visceral learning that promises to
upend training and human performance.

In this session, you will
learn:

How to develop games that thrive on a sense of engagement,
storytelling, character identification, immersion, problem-solving, and accomplishment

How to develop a 3-D transmedia strategy to leverage
the cost of developing for VR and AR by deploying the same simulation to desktops,
tablets, and phones

How to use virtual reality as “the ultimate empathy
machine” to develop customer service and people skills

How to leverage the 2 billion phones that were just
turned into a magic lens of augmented reality to develop everything from onboarding
to performance support

Anders Gronstedt

President

Gronstedt Group

Anders Gronstedt, PhD, is president of the Gronstedt Group. He is
an
author, public speaker and entrepreneur. He is an advocate of using
next-gen learning tools to advance real-world skills through virtual
and
augmented reality training, game, and simulation-based learning.
The Gronstedt Group has been instrumental in helping global
companies like Walmart, KPMG, Novartis, Google, HP, DaVita, and
Kimberly-Clark improve performance with innovative learning
approaches.
Anders is a former faculty member of the University of Colorado's
Boulder School and his articles have appeared in the Harvard
Business Review.